United States Census of Mortality: 1850, 1860, and 1870 (ICPSR 2526)

Citation

Fogel, Robert W., Ferrie, Joseph, Costa, Dora L., and Karlan, Dean S. United States Census of Mortality: 1850, 1860, and 1870. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-03-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02526.v1

This data collection is a portion of the historical data
collected by the project, "Early Indicators of Later Work Levels,
Disease, and Death," which is collecting military, medical, and
socioeconomic data on a sample of white males mustered into the Union
Army during the Civil War. During 1850, 1860, and 1870, mortality
information was gathered at the county level as an addendum to the
population census. These data examine the impact of environmental
factors on life outcomes and look at the influence of infectious
disease rates on economic and health patterns at late ages. Part 1,
Disease Data, looks at cause of death from 66 disease
classifications. Part 2, General Disease Data, also examines cause of
death but through 18 broad disease categories. Variables included in
both parts are state, county, year of death, and frequency of death by
disease.

Fogel, Robert W., Ferrie, Joseph, Costa, Dora L., and Karlan, Dean S. United States Census of Mortality: 1850, 1860, and 1870. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-03-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02526.v1

These files represent a storage format sometimes
referred to as a weighted analysis file. The data are organized with
one record for each county/year/disease permutation (in the event that
no one died in that county/year/disease, no record is created). For
each such permutation, the frequency variable contains the number of
individuals who died in the county/year of that disease.

Questions regarding the use of these
data should be directed to Peter Viechnicki at the University of
Chicago (peterv@cpe.uchicago.edu).

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:

Fogel, Robert W., Joseph Ferrie, Dora L. Costa, and Dean S. Karlan. United States Census of Mortality: 1850, 1860, and 1870. ICPSR02526-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02526.v1

2006-03-30 File CB2526.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.

Notes

The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.